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Originally Posted by tompe
Yes, definitely. Because enhancing the totality is one of the most important functions that a good editor contributes to.
And I do not read books in a way that I enjoy part of it and that is enough. I enjoy the whole book or I do not enjoy the whole book. I enjoyed a lot of episodes of Battlestar Galactica but the ending made these episodes bad retroactively and I really think the hours spent watching them was totally wasted and I felt cheated since I could have wathed a series that was good instead.
And we also have the case that the totality is OK but it could have been brilliant. Which is also bad since I do not want to read books that are just OK but also that I missed a potentially brilliant book.
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When it comes to the totality issue, I probably end up reading more "bad" (to me) trad books through to the end--because I expect that an editor oversaw it. Usually! with self-published, I see some of the book coming apart at the seams earlier and put it down. But with trad books I'm fooled. I would say on the margin that I personally finish more bad books that are traditionally published because I hold out some false hope that an editor has kept the writer from some of the basic problems of plot holes, ridiculous plots that go off the rails, a complete lack of plot or a fake plot, etc.